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Confederate newspaper from Montgomery, Alabama...
Confederate newspaper from Montgomery, Alabama...
Item # 705676
January 01, 1865
THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, Montgomery, Alabama, Jan. 1, 1865
* Very Rare Confederate title from the "traveling" newspaper
* Memphis newspaper printed in Montgomery, Alabama
If the title and city of publication seem to disagree, they do not. This newspaper had a fascinating history during the Civil War.
Memphis was a Confederate stronghold up through the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862, at which time the Yankees moved in and it became a Yankee city. Being a strong voice for the Confederacy, the "Memphis Appeal" newspaper would not continue under Yankee control. As Wikipedia notes: "...On June 6, 1862, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where it published for some time. The Appeal later journeyed to Jackson, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, and finally Montgomery, Alabama, where the plates were destroyed on April 6, 1865, only days before the Confederate surrender, halting publication of what had been one of the major papers serving the Southern cause." So this one newspaper published in six different Confederate cities--this being the last--during the Civil War.
Among the front page reports are those headed: "From Atlanta" "A Sketch of Sherman" "Destruction of Three Gunboats" "From Mississippi" "Confederates States Congress" "Proceedings in the Yankee Senate" and more.
The back page has much on the war as well, the lengthiest content being reports from the "Confederate States Congress" and: "Position of the Confederacy".
Complete as a single sheet newspaper of large folio size, damp staining, otherwise nice condition.
AI notes: The Memphis Daily Appeal, originally founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1841 and becoming a daily by 1847, gained historical notoriety during the American Civil War for its staunchly Confederate stance and its remarkable mobility. When Union forces occupied Memphis in 1862, the newspaper’s editors refused censorship and repeatedly relocated their printing operations to continue publication, moving the press by wagon and rail through cities including Grenada and Jackson, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, and notably Montgomery, Alabama. This constant relocation earned it the nickname the “Moving Appeal,” as it continued to serve Confederate readers despite the dangers of wartime occupation. After the war, the staff returned to Memphis, eventually merging with other local papers to become the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which remains a major Memphis newspaper today.
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